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I finally got an xbox mod chip ordered.  That only took, what, 6 months?  Anyway, let the HTPC revolution is Casa De Justin begin!

Something I forgot about with installing XP on the Mac.  When I first ran the repartition utility it complained about my disk having errors and that I would need to fix it.  Listening to the TWiT podcast podcast it sounds like the same thing happened to everyone on the podcast who tried it. Boot camp gave detailed instructions which amounted to booting off the install cd, running a disk fixing utility, and rebooting back into OS X.  This took maybe 15 minutes and three mouse clicks so it was no big deal.  Still it would be nice if the disk repair utility got rolled into boot camp or (if rebooting into a utility mode is necessary) was performed in a more automated manner.

ps – The WYSIWIG interface of Wordpress 2 is nice, but it really needs a spell checker.  There’s probably a plugin for this, but I’m too lazy to look.

So I’ve had the windows by my desk open for the last several days which has been pretty nice.  I’ve got the window open in the bedroom too and there’s a direct breeze line from one to the other so I get a nice wind coming through this hot ass office and it’s just a pleasant thing.  Unfortunately I just now notice the thin film of pine tree polen that has coated everything.  That is not a pleasant thing :(

So once you’ve got a copy of XP with SP2 it really is trivially easy.  One odd thing I did notice though.  When you run boot camp it has a partition resizing utility that work like a champ.  However if you install windows after letting boot camp create a partition, then try to install windows again and just let the windows installer delete and recreate that partition it fails after the first installer reboot.  I had to start over with boot camp and restore my disk to one partition then recreate a windows partition.  I may have try to install one more time as I chose NTFS instead of FAT32 and OS X can only read from NTFS while it can RW from FAT32.  I’ll see how much I need to write stuff to disk from OS X.

Anyway, I’m stragely giddy about using windows on Apple hardware and I don’t know why.  I guess it’s a combination of novelty and the “I never thought I’d see the day” factor.

I can say I actually need this though because, while understandable, the Mono IDE’s for OS X leave something to be desired (like desiring they exist).  There’s apparently a group working on extending xcode to provide for good mono development, but god only knows when they’ll finish.

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So I just moved to Wordpress 2.0 which was about as painless as things get.

I also tried to install XP on my mac which went moderately well. I was all getting ready to say that the requirement that you have an install cd with windows xp and sp2 on it was a lot of hooey, but it may actually be necessary. Though XP is installed and the dual booting is working, I’m having issues getting drivers (most importantly network drivers) installed properly. I’ve got an SP2 cd laying around, but SP2 won’t install either.

I’ve got a valid XP Pro cd key that’s unused, so I might see if I can warez me up an iso of xp with sp2. Other than the driver issues though, things went really well with the install. Apple made is a pretty clean process. Without proper drivers though, there’s no way I can really test performance.

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today

I’m not really sure what to think of this. I mean, it’s freaking awesome, sure, but does it really matter? Does it help Apple? Hurt MS? I don’t know, but I’m damn sure downoading it right now.

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WoW: The Burning Crusade Screenshots

Oh hellz yeah! More creepy forest and arid desert. Thank you Blizzard!